8. Lucy’s Idea

Chapter 8 Lucy's Idea Hannah blushed. "How did you know?" she asked. "We saw you yesterday on the trapeze," Lucy said. "I thought you were wonderful!" "Why, thank you, Lucy!" Hannah said. "But I was in my costume, so how did you know it was me?" "That's what I want to know!" Brian said. Bradley told Hannah and Adam about the man at Howard's Barbershop—the one with the messy hair. "It reminded me of Hannah's the first time we saw her," he said. "That was, like, five minutes

第八章露茜的主意汉娜脸红了。 “你怎么知道的？”她问。 “我们昨天在空中飞人上看见你了。”露茜说。 “我觉得你很棒！”“啊，谢谢你，露茜！”汉娜说。 “但我当时穿着戏服，你怎么知道是我？”“这正是我想知道的！”布莱恩说。 布拉德利告诉汉娜和亚当霍华德理发店里那个头发乱糟糟的男人的事。 “这让我想起了我们第一次见到汉娜时的情景，”他说。 “那大概只有五分钟

after we watched the mystery acrobat in the tent." "I remember!" Nate said. "Hannah's hair was all spiky." "After I saw that guy at Howard's, I thought maybe Hannah's hair was all weird because she'd just pulled off that hood on her silver costume!" Bradley went on. "Later, her hair was all neat." "Our folks don't know," Adam said. "We haven't told them how good Hannah is on the high wire and trapeze." "But why not?" Bradley asked. "She's awesome!" Adam sighed. "The folks want to keep the Flying Fortunatos together, but the circus is falling apart," he said. "They're getting old, and they have no money." "Even if I performed, we still wouldn't have a circus," Hannah said. She looked at her brother. "Tell them the rest, Adam." "I don't want to be an acrobat anymore," Adam said. "I want to be an artist. I want to go to art school this fall." "But your parents—" Bradley started to say.

在我们看完帐篷里的神秘杂技演员之后。” “我记得!”内特说。“汉娜的头发都是尖的。” “我在霍华德家看到那个家伙后，我想汉娜的头发可能很奇怪，因为她刚刚脱下了银色戏服上的兜帽！”布拉德利接着说。 “后来，她的头发都整齐了。” “我们的父母不知道，”亚当说。 “我们还没有告诉他们汉娜在高空走钢丝和空中飞人上有多棒。” “为什么不呢？”布拉德利问。 “她是太棒了!”亚当叹了口气。 他说：“人们想让‘飞翔的福图纳托’继续存在，但马戏团正在分崩离析。” “他们老了，又没钱。” “即使我表演，我们也不会有马戏团，”汉娜说。 她看着她的弟弟。 “把剩下的告诉他们，亚当。” “我不想再当杂技演员了，”亚当说。 “我想成为一名艺术家。今年秋天我想去艺术学校。” “但是你的父母——”布拉德利开始说。

"They don't know that, either," Adam said. "They're going to be crushed when we tell them." Bradley remembered the note. "Who's Mr. Wood?" he asked Adam. "How'd you hear about him?" Adam asked. Bradley told him about the picture he'd found in the shoe box. "You wrote the note, right?" Adam nodded. "Lawson Wood is a great artist," he explained. "I want to do what he does. I was writing him a letter, and then I threw it away." Adam looked at his sister. "Your turn," he said. "I don't want to be an acrobat, either," Hannah said. "I want to open a school to teach acrobatics. But the folks would have a fit. They keep thinking they can save the circus." "She's a natural," Adam said. "She could totally teach other people. I think she's part bird or something." Hannah grinned. "You're the one who's part bird," she said. Turning to the kids, she added, "Adam Fortunato is the best acrobat I've ever seen. Our parents taught him. Now he's even better than they were. He's been teaching me for ten years!"

“他们也不知道，”亚当说。 “如果我们告诉他们，他们会崩溃的。” 布拉德利想起了那张纸条。 “伍德先生是谁？”他问亚当。 “你是怎么听说他的？”亚当问。 布拉德利把他在鞋盒里找到的照片告诉了他。 “纸条是你写的，对吧？”亚当点点头。 “劳森·伍德是一位伟大的艺术家，”他解释道。 “我想做他做的事。 我给他写了一封信，然后就把信扔了。” 亚当看着他的妹妹。 “该你了，”他说。“我也不想当杂技演员，”汉娜说。 “我想开一所学校教杂技。 但是乡亲们会生气的。 他们一直认为他们可以拯救马戏团。” “她很有天赋，”亚当说。 “她完全可以教别人。 我觉得她有鸟的血统什么的。” 汉娜笑了。“你有一半鸟的血统，”她说。 她转向孩子们，补充说：“亚当·福尔图纳托是我见过的最好的杂技演员。 我们的父母教他的。现在他比以前更棒了。 他教了我十年了！”

Bradley remembered Adam's performance earlier. "Um, we saw you in the tent," he said. "You didn't look much like an acrobat.…" "Oh, I was just practicing how I was going to fool my parents," Adam said. "I was going to pretend I was a klutz—that I couldn't do it anymore. So they'd let me out of the show." "What are you guys going to do?" Nate asked. Adam shrugged. Hannah shook her head. "I have an idea," Lucy said. Adam and Hannah looked at Lucy. "Tell us!" Hannah said. "Tell your parents they can be part of the audience tomorrow night," Lucy said.

布拉德利想起了亚当早些时候的表演。 “嗯，我们在帐篷里看到你了，”他说。 “你看起来不太像杂技演员。“哦，我只是在练习如何愚弄我的父母，”亚当说。 “我打算假装自己是个笨手笨脚的人——我再也做不下去了。 所以他们让我退出了演出。” “你们打算怎么办？”内特问道。 亚当耸耸肩。汉娜摇了摇头。 “我有个主意。”露茜说。 亚当和汉娜看着露西。 “告诉我们!”汉娜说。“告诉你的父母，他们明天晚上也可以来。”露西说。